"He is 2 1/2. He will be 3 in June and he is wild, crazy energetic toddler. He is into everything all the time, he is so much fun, said Elizabeth Roy.

Roy said her son Broden wasn't always this happy and healthy.

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Despite having a normal pregnancy and delivery, shortly after his birth, Broden started having trouble and nearly died.

"The last night I stayed in the hospital he got a cold and clammy feeling. I asked the nurse if she thought everything was OK and she said he is probably just cold and wrapped him up in another blanket," Roy said.

Roy said when they got home the next day, things didn't get any better.

"He was 7 days old. At about 2 o'clock in the morning he stopped nursing. He was cold and clammy. I wasn't sure what was going on," she said.

But she knew something was wrong and after Broden was taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland, doctors said he was having severe organ failure.

"We weren't really sure, one, what was wrong with our baby and two, whether he was going to live or not," Roy said.

After endless hours of praying and lots of tears, Broden's family finally got some answers. Broden had a severe heart defect and would need several surgeries.

"You know he had many warning signs when he was first born that he didn't have enough oxygen in his blood," Roy said.

Roy believes if he was given a pulse oximetry test, which measures oxygen levels in blood, hid doctors might have known something was wrong.

It's a non-invasive test that a nurse can do by putting a monitor on a baby's foot.

Rep. Henry Beck of Waterville said about 70 percent of hospitals in Maine give newborns that test, but he want every hospital to give it, and that's why he's introducing legislation to mandate it.

"In a lot of states it is already a standard of care, but we thought it was important to put that in the law in statue create that standard. Makes sure kids like Broden are detected early get that treatment early," said Beck.

So hopefully they might avoid going through what Broden and his family had to experience.

"Every day I just look at him and you can't help but smile and be thankful for what we were given. We had all the right doctors and nurses and a great team that day," Roy said.